Leading Chinese artist Qu Leilei will show new work in an autumn exhibition in the Ashmolean’s Chinese Paintings Gallery. Qu Leilei (b.1951) is an internationally renowned artist based in London. He was born in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang and grew up during the political and cultural turbulence of late twentieth-century China. He started his […]
Category: The Arts
Project New Sun: Exploring Chinese culture or is it a self-loathing China-bashing monologue?
Photo credit – Chris Chan – Comedy show Gongs, Songs & Hong Kong Thongs courtesy of China Changing, South Bank Centre The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Nee Hao By Paul Wu – Guest contributor I had been looking forward to seeing Project New Sun: “a double bill exploring Chinese culture in modern day […]
Interview with British Chinese Playwright Naomi Sumner Chan
Emmanuelle Khoo – Film and Entertainment Editor Last week, Alex Chang talked to Nee Hao about his journey and the challenges of a British-Chinese actor. In this third part of Nee Hao’s exclusive interview series on British-Chinese talent in the entertainment industry, we would like to introduce Naomi Sumner Chan, a playwright whose works is […]
The Empress And Me – A Chinese “Princess” Performs in London
For one night only, The Empress and Me is performing at Ognisko Polskie – The Polish Hearth Club in South Kensington on Sunday 29 Oct 2017, 4pm. This brand new play looks at the amazing true story of Lizzie Yu – Princess Der Ling, who was raised in the West and became the favourite lady […]
Celebrating the China Britain partnership – A River All Red and The Phoenix Returns Home
China’s Golden Week saw 300,000 Chinese visitors descend on London, an increase of a third from last year’s holiday, and 2017 marks the 45th anniversary of the Ambassadorial diplomatic ties between China and Britain. So, this is an important time in the bilateral partnership between the two countries. To celebrate this international relationship the China […]
British-Chinese talents in the entertainment industry – Actor Linda Louise Duan
Emmanuelle Khoo – Film and Entertainment Editor Nee Hao starts off its exclusive five-part series that engages in a meaningful conversation with British-Chinese talents in the entertainment industry. From audition tips to guilty pleasures, ongoing debates of British-Chinese identity to East Asian stereotypes in film, Emmanuelle Khoo uncovers an underlying narrative of what it means […]
‘Engineered by Nature’- a David Yeo exhibition
David Yeo, winner of the inaugural British Life Photographic competition, is launching a new exhibition at the Leica Studio in Mayfair, open to the general public from 19th October to 3rd November 2017. Using the Leica S, he has captured a unique connection and contrast between everyday man-made objects and the natural form. From the […]
Opening ceremony of Master Dahan with Mark Slaats from Littleton & Hennessy
Mark Slaats, art consultant and antiques dealer at art advisory group Littleton & Hennessy provided the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of Dahan: Contemporary Monk Painting, at the Mall Galleries in London. Mark Slaats said: “I really loved some of Master Dahan’s work – which combines Chinese and Western aesthetics. Chinese art, both antiques […]
Fairy Tale, A Tale of Tea – Infusion, In Fashion, In Harmony
V&A-collected Chinese fashion designer Rui Xu, has created “Scarlet Infusion” – seven seductive and spellbinding costumes, one for each of the characters in The Tea Spell, the Rashomon style dance theatre directed by Zhao Liang (UK premiere on 13th August 2017 at Edinburgh International Conference Centre). Centred around the stunningly beautiful, scarlet clad, female lead […]
Brand-new adaption of an iconic Chinese play debuting at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The original play was written in Mandarin and has proved one of the most influential masterpieces of modern Chinese drama. It carries the same value and impact in China as Shakespeare’s canon does in the English- speaking world. The play was first staged in the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre in 1958. After the author Lao […]